AI's Rise: A Billion-Dollar Boom, a Dystopian Future, and a Looming Existential Threat.

"Every act is either a step forward or a step backward." — Epictetus

⚡ Tech News

• The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. - Quanta Magazine
• Chatbots learned to write from us. Can AI now change the way we think? - Radio-Canada
• What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - The New Yorker
• 'Godfather of AI' warns machines could soon outthink humans, calls for 'maternal instincts' to be built in - Fox Business
• Opinion | How ‘Altman’s Pause’ could knock the AI industry off course - The Washington Post
• Co-founder of Elon Musk's XAI Departs - Techcrunch.com
• Apple's AI Turnaround Plan - Bloomberg.com
• Illinois bans AI therapy as some states begin to scrutinize chatbots - The Washington Post
• New York Sues Zelle Over $1 Billion in Fraud Losses - Reuters.com
• AI could lead to ‘short-term dystopia,’ warns former Google executive - Global News
• AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study - Bloomberg.com
• The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI - CNN
• Man Hospitalized With Psychiatric Symptoms Following AI Advice - ScienceAlert
• Perplexity Valuation Jumps to $20 Billion in Latest Fundraise - Businessinsider.com
• Relying on AI in colonoscopies risks eroding doctors’ skills, study warns - POLITICO.eu
• Wild Chrome Bid Perplexity: Hunting Browsers - Theinformation.com
• OpenAI’s Rocky GPT-5 Rollout Shows Struggle to Remain Undisputed AI Leader - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal
• Unraveling Pentagon Projects May Result in Costly Do-Over - Reuters.com
• AI is already creating a billionaire boom: There are now 498 AI unicorns—and they're worth $2.7 trillion - Fortune
• Doctors are turning to AI scribes to take medical notes. Quebec wants to test it out - CBC
• Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s AI Feud Gets Nasty - Time Magazine
• Doctors Using AI Quickly Lose Ability to Spot Cancer, Study Finds - Futurism

📈 Market News

• Stock market today: Dow jumps 450 points as S&P 500, Nasdaq log back-to-back records on surging Fed rate cut bets - Yahoo Finance
• S&P 500: $6,466.58 (+0.32%)
• Nikkei: ¥42,649.26 (-1.45%)